John Edwin Treherne (15 May 1929 – 23 September 1989) was an English entomologist who specialized in insect biochemistry and physiology and conducted extensive experimental studies.

He then agreed with the officer that fossils had been planted by the devil and spent time indoors next to a fire and explained in later life would humorously argue that pragmatism and opportunism had a role in the survival of the fittest.

After the army, he joined the Insect Physiology Unit at Downing College in Cambridge under Vincent Wigglesworth as a lecturer and reader.

In 1955 he worked under the Agricultural Research Council to study digestion in Periplaneta americana making use of isotopes to trace the movement of glucose and trehalose.

[7] Treherne married June Vivienne Freeman in 1955 and they shared an interest in history and they had a son Mark and a daughter Rebecca.